Carrie Wise
Deputy Editor - Arts & CultureExpertise: Digital, video and audio storytelling; arts and culture
Education: Solon High School
Kent State University - Bachelor of Science
Favorite spot in Northeast Ohio: Walking in nature
Experience:
Carrie Wise leads the coverage of arts and culture in Northeast Ohio across platforms for Ideastream Public Media. She guides reporters and producers while working alongside them to share stories with digital, radio and television audiences. This work includes the longtime arts TV show "Applause," the local music podcast "Shuffle" and the To-Do List email newsletter. Before joining Ideastream, Carrie was digital news editor at The Columbus Dispatch in Columbus, Ohio. She also worked as a multimedia journalist for several years at The Columbus Dispatch and The Naples Daily News in Naples, Florida.
Highlights:
- Arts stories shared nationally by the PBS “NewsHour” and NPR
- 2022 Ohio Society of Professional Journalists, Best Arts/Entertainment Reporting
- Oversaw the creation of Ideastream's first digital video series, "Making It," and the production of more than 100 features
- 2018 Gabriel Award, Catholic Press Association and Emmy Award, National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Central Great Lakes, “Cleveland Nun Paints Prayers in Mural”
Why trust Ideastream Public Media?
The mission of Ideastream Public Media is to be a trustworthy and dynamic multimedia source for illuminating the world around us. Our highest priority is providing news and information that is reliable and accurate, that is gathered with integrity and professional care and that is presented with precision and respect for the intelligence of our audiences. We are transparent about how we discover and verify the facts we present and strive to make our decision-making process clear to the public. We disclose relationships, such as with partners or funders, that might appear, but will never, influence our coverage.
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Spend time with friends and family this week enjoying arts and culture around the region. From a few final holiday shows to interesting exhibits, there’s something for everyone. -
The deli opened in 1956 but closed abruptly on Tuesday. Longtime customers are disappointed and hope it's only temporary. -
In 1851, Sojourner Truth gave a famous speech at a women’s rights convention in Akron. More than 150 years later, artists and community leaders are honoring her with a major project. -
As theaters nationwide grapple with increased costs to produce shows, local theater leaders discuss the challenges and bright spots of the new normal. -
With a fresh take on impressionism, the exhibit shares Degas’ depictions of laundresses as well as the works of his peers illustrating the tough and very public labor carried out by Parisian women. -
This year’s discipline awards celebrate artists working in photography, design, visual art, music and literature. The prestigious honor comes with $10,000. -
Oberlin College is cooperating with authorities from New York who seized in place this week a drawing by Egon Schiele alleged to have been stolen during the Holocaust. -
Franz Welser-Möst, longtime music director of the Cleveland Orchestra, recently had a cancerous tumor removed and needs further medical care that will require him to step away from conducting temporarily. -
After sharing space for more than 20 years, the center and the archives will both have larger spaces to exhibit art in separate buildings. -
At the organ workshop in Orrville, workers continue to built the instrument by hand. The tradition started with A.J. Schantz in 1873.
